The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-30
A JUDGE ON FARMING.

At the last meeting of the Deer Creek Farm
ers' Club of Hartford county the question dis
cussed was, Chow farming be made more
proftable?" Among those who spoke on the sub
iect was Judge Waters, who said: providence
never intended that farmers should get rich. All
that the mass of farmers can do is to make com
Portable living. No business that does not incur
risks can invite large profits. If we are raising
produce at loss at present prices, there are only
two ways to make it profitable. One is to increase
prices and the other to diminish the cost OF pro-
duction. We cannot increase prices, therefore
farmers look to the other. For instance II we can
raise 20 bushels of wheat at 80 cents per bushel
and come out even, by increasing the yield of our
land to 80 bushels we would have some profit.
Another way to make farming profitable is to turn
our attention to those branches which pay best IN
our particular locality. No doubt our farmers can
devote more attention then they have done to stock
raising, but to make it profitable we should have
stock of good quality. In breeding horses this Is
unquestionably important. This thing OF breed
ing to scrub horses with the expectation of getting
a phenomenal trotter is nonsense. By using ut
tie judgment it is as easy to raise colts worth sZoo
or $500 at three years DID, instead of one worth So
as it is to improve your land and make it raise ~
barrels of corn an acre instead of five. L do not
mean that farmers should raise race horses, but
there is class of roadsters which can be raised
with as much certainty as beef cattle Coacn
horses and large work horses always bring big
prices. If you raise calf which will sell at three
years old for $40 or $50 without loss, by improV-
ing your stock and raising a three-year old steer
which will sell at 500 there is profit in it. 1t is
the same with cows. If it will pay expenses to
keep a COW that will make or lbs. of butter
week, there would be profit in keeping improved
stock that would make 10 lbs. To improve land
by natural process is very slow and therefore artl-
fetal means must be used to assist Natures process
of improvement Farmers do not pay as much
attention as they ought to saving manures. The
average loss is fully three-fourths before getting
them on the land, and great deal is lost after
being put on. Manure saved under cover would
be worth great deal more than that saved in the
usual way"
Mg-A large portion of the report of the chief
of the Bureau of Statistics is devoted to the con-
sumption of distilled and malt liquors and wines
in the United States and the figures it gives are
rather startling. In round numbers, the consump-
ton of distilled spirits, domestic and imported,
in this country is shown to have Increased from
$4,000 900 gallons in 1S40 to Y, 100000 in 1885 /;
of wines from $780, 900 gallons to $4,000, 900, and
of malt liquors, from 23,000,000 to 642, 100000
gallons. The consumption per capita during the
same period decreased, regards distilled spirits,
from about two and a-half gallons to about one
and a-quarter gallons, and increased, as regards
wines from 29-l00ths to 3S-100ths gallons, and
malt liquors from less than one and half gallons
to more than eleven gallons. An elaborate state
ment, made upon competent authority, sets forth
that the present average expenditure in this coun-
try per annum for malt and spirituous liquors at
retail is 500 900, 900. The drinking population
is estimated to be 14,925,4 making the average
expenditure per capita S45.9O. 1t is shown that
the consumption of spirits is decreasing, while
that of beer is largely increasing.
MS-It is said that Congressman Scott, of Erie
Pa, offers to bet $4,000 that Cleveland will bt
renominated by the Democratic convention mex
year and that he will be elected. He also pro
poses, SO it is sad to bet $50 900 that the Repub
iican party will make no Presidential nomination.
after 1892. He bases this latter prediction upor
the theory that another defeat will disintegrat'
the Republican party. Mr.. Scott is bold mai
to make such proposition and he ought to b'
able to find taker for the last mentioned bet, a
| least.